skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Getting back to the facts, there is nothing allowing us to think that depressed people feel better when taking ketamine BECAUSE the number of synapses increases when taking ketamin."

This seems to be a strange use of the word "allowing". I would say that the evidence presents an interesting and testable hypothesis about the role of synaptic connections in depression. The obvious next step would be to find other methods of inducing similar effects on synapses by means other than ketamine and see if they have similar effects on depression.

Out of interest, what do you think might be some of the biological mechanisms associated with chronic depression and how would you seek to investigate them?
Everything that Jeff said in his article boils down to spending too much mired in productivity porn, then overreacting and declaring that todo lists are useless and you shouldn't use them.

Yeah, I happen to be one of those people who disagrees with Atwood on this particular issue. Sure, I get depressed that I can't do everything, and I was getting overloaded by all my tasks. And I won't deny that there seem to be way too many pieces of software to manage todos. But to say that keeping a todo list is worthless and give up on the whole idea seems like throwing out the baby with the bath water. Also the saying that "if it's important to you, you'll do it" might have a grain of truth, it's also very all-or-nothing black-or-white thinking.

If anything, I think that each person has to figure out their own way of managing tasks. For me, it was realizing that I can't do everything, or maybe I can't do everything right now, and just need to pare down my tasks or constrain my focus. Just because I cancel or defer a task (which takes it off my radar) doesn't mean it disappears. Text is cheap, and I try to capture everything, then prioritize from there; I end up archiving many, many things. Over time, I've developed a list of don't-forget-must-dos, in which I mix the occasional want-to-do. I'm horrible at keeping focused (or more accurately, if you break me out of my focus, I sometimes can't even tell you why or what I was doing!), so having a list I go down and check off is a lifesaver. Keeping busy also has the additional benefit of keeping the depression at bay. Ironically, the more busy I am, the less stressed I am; it's only when I stop to worry about what I have to do, or worse, if I didn't have a place to note things that need to be done, I worry about missing things.
thanks for the thorough response. I wonder how profitable it would be if you charged say $5/year. guess its impossible to determine, because gizmodo or gadgt could sign up and destroy your average cost per user.
I feel they did improve with later versions. For example, they now have keys you can program with arbitrary functions.
I have a chromebook and never used it. I believe tablets are more promising.
Bizarre Microsoft Surface advertisement
I disagree. Go to a psychologist. Psychiatrists are widely regarded as pharma-sponsored drug pushers. While the OP may need medication, medication is only one tool in combating depression.

A psychologist will help you identify the root cause of your depression in a calm, non-judgemental atmosphere. He or she will explain to you how the various defense mechanisms in your mind work and how they can result in the types of thoughts and thought patterns that led to your depression. A good psychologist will help you see for yourself what is wrong and how to fix it.
> Fully Responsive...

AKA just using a Bootstrap theme. Haha However, this looks nice! Well done! :)
H&M is the fashion stop.

B&N is the book stop.

B&H is the tech stop.
wait. why is that false? both come out to 0.1, which should be equal?
I think that's a bit of hyperbole. Game consoles are decidedly a smaller market, but dying? Come on. The latest game consoles will always be much more powerful than the latest phones just as the latest PCs will always be more powerful than the latest consoles. The console market might shrink a bit due to casual gamers being able to use mobile devices but die?
Young Female Chimps Cradle Stick-Toys like Dolls
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I for one do have a spouse and a child, no dog though :(

I have worked probably the same amount of hours when I was younger but due to other responsibilities that came up after I got married, I had to stick with the 35 - 40 hours work weeks.

I was recently involved with a very small shop (5 people, 3 full time developers) and it really took a toll on me. I got caught up in a project that had no end in sight and really caused me great frustration and a sense of not accomplishing anything which contributed immensely in my decision to walk away.

Right now I'm taking a long break but still update myself with what is going on in tech & programming in particular. I have always been a coder (only job I ever had) and I can't see myself doing anything else.

BTW, I just turned 50 myself. So here's to another 20 years of writing software. Cheers!
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>"Your declarative statements unencumbered by any research are fascinating"

Worked for a social gaming company, investigated this exact problem ("How many of our DAUs are multiple accounts?"). For our game, which had mechanics that encouraged player-to-player commerce, the number of these fake accounts was huge: around 40% on DAUs of ~150k. It was clear to me and my co-workers that this was a big issue, everywhere. But everyone in the space benefits from saying "1 BILLION USERS!" when you are selling ad reach. Except for those actually buying ads. Oops.

Moved on to different things, shorted ZNGA in April after the OMGPOP acquisition, having been privy to this scheme. Have made a decent return, covering at ~$5, but missed the last two big drops. I'm not particularly concerned what you choose to believe, because my view has worked out pretty well for me.
I wonder if Mike Goldman ever made a response after everything was published. I found very distasteful when he threatened to accuse Patrick of fraud.

He should have recognized that the rules where vaguely stated and at the very least offer an apology. Plain refusing to download all his files, when he had expressly accepted multiple files at being ok was kind of weird.

The google groups link in the page no longer works so I wonder if that's archived elsewhwere.
Bootstrap FTW. It was actually pretty complicated to implement and there is lots of customized javascript for scaling all the way down to an iPhone.
Efficient Things: Get ready for winter
You know, I opened Safari this morning and, while I was startled by the music suddenly blasting through my speakers with no warning, I watched the video through to the end. It was nice, I enjoyed it.

But EVERY TIME I OPEN A NEW SAFARI WINDOW IT STARTS PLAYING AGAIN. Sound and everything. Couldn't they have set a cookie for "already watched"?

The annoyance this occasioned was the final push I needed to go into the preferences and reset my Safari home page from the default Apple page -- actually, I just chose to have new windows open empty -- but Apple has now lost the chance to advertise to me every time I open a new browser window.
A pulse jet is an incredibly simple kind of jet engine, usually with no moving parts. They were used on the V1 flying bomb in WWII. Wikipedia probably explains it better than I can http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_jet_engine . The version in this video is a valveless pulsejet.

Basically, he put the combustion chamber of the pulse jet in a tea kettle, so instead of just glowing red hot when it's running, it heats water. Also, it's awesome.
You're confusing the language with the build system. LaTeX wouldn't be very useful without the awesome build system. This project is a build system for producing both high-quality HTML and high-quality PDF (through latex) with a single, high-level ReST markup language. It also uses latex formulas for math.
An Arduino might be more ideal solution for that. There is a huge collection of physical measurement devices for it and it would probably would be easier to implement with that. I'm not sure you can get an anemometer for it but a bit of tinkering would probably yield an equally effective solution. Sparkfun has a bunch of accesseries you can browse through.
There is also the Hutter prizes with a 50 000$ reward. http://prize.hutter1.net/
If you need to do something, and forget, then there will be consequences.

Like feeding your pets? Or your children? Yeah, I'm sure the court will see it that way.

Similarly, if an idea you had is good and you didn't write it down, don't worry, it will come back. Good ideas have a nasty habit of bubbling up in your brain and not leaving you alone.

What evidence do you have for this? How many scientific breakthroughs have been due to happy accidents, or someone noticing a tiny thread and keeping track of it? How many times do you hear about some scientific discovery that took decades because people kept forgetting to note "insignificant" details?

One last thing: just because lists don't work for you doesn't mean they don't have utility for others.
As a nuclear engineer I am mildly offended they would ask you that in a job interview.
OP here. With HN having a heavy developer base, it would be great to get your feedback on if you think MCP paints a different picture than MVP.
Addendum to your rewording "... BECAUSE I'M SO MOVED THAT BEFORE TODAY I'D HAVE THOUGHT IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN A FUCKING DEITY TO DO WHAT YOU JUST DID."

Edit:

Further, I don't believe in God but I also don't believe I've ever felt I deserved "full credit" for an achievement in the way you're describing.
The crucial moment in my understanding of dynamic languages was when I was learning about the Abstract Factory pattern by implementing it in PHP. After writing different factory classes and all the shenanigans I've realized that all of that can be replaced with a simple

$instance = new $classname(param1, param2)
Ask HN: What is your cut off percentage for browser support?
At what point is it ok to no longer focus on supporting a browser _explicitly_? Assume that your site still renders correctly to anyone who doesn't know the exact sizes the divs are supposed to be, and is 95+% functional in said browser with any non functional parts being whizzbang features.
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“Plurality”: A Short Film About Surveillance In 2023
Random fact, there's actually a bit of a story behind the trackpoint being red.

As I was told by a guy at IBM, and I haven't been able to confirm this elsewhere, is that at the time the Thinkpad was originally conceived, IBM design guidelines mandated that the only red elements on a piece of hardware should be the power switches. However, the team behind the Thinkpad design though (rightly) that a red trackpoint would look awesome on the black keys. Their solution? They put it down as 'magenta' on the specs to get it approved.

And while on the subject of Thinkpad lore, the name comes from notepads that were distributed to IBM employees with the word 'THINK' emblazoned on the cover (http://davetroy.com/posts/think-then-and-now)
Data Governance And The Data Portfolio
A pulse jet is basically the predecessor to jet engines as we usually think of them, but they work more like the internal combustion engines we have in cars. They are basically combustion Chambers that are set up to emit the exhaust in one direction for thrust and reset for the next explosion.

The rapid fire explosions create a buzzing noise, and a decent amount of heat.
OkCupid sold a sample of their dataset for $1,000, but I can't find it on Infochimps anymore.
"Don't repeat yourself without a clear reason for doing so" isn't really different at all from what most people mean when they say, "DRY". It's just removed from the ultra-literalistic interpretive context that too many Internet commentators apply to admonitions and guidelines of all sorts.

No developer who says, "DRY" actually means, "Never, ever repeat yourself." No developer who offers advice of any kind expects that it applies under all circumstances. We still phrase it in strict, prescriptive terms because it retains more of its moral force that way.

Anyone who expects pithy development advice to note exceptions is interpreting it in a juvenile way.
Microsoft.com gets a makeover
On OS X or iOS there should be a full-screen button in the upper right corner of the video player controls.
Lazy statement. You know Apple doesn't make apps for the android market.
I agree. When I go to my car, I walk up to it and touch the door handle, which unlocks it. I sit down and press the start button to start the engine. The key never leaves my pocket, and I don't really care what it's doing as a user. (I personally care since I'm an engineer, but that's beside the point) To the user the unlock and start procedure has precisely 0 steps that aren't physically opening the door and stating the engine via a single dash button press.
A dynamically typed language can still be strongly typed. For example, Python will give you an exception on a type error, where C/C++ could wreck havoc in your memory.
To me it belies a lack of deep introspection.

I think this could describe most of the articles on codinghorror.com these days. Or to put it more politely (from a quote by Einstein): "The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call
this their point of view." What doesn't work for someone may work for others.
"It's what Shakespeare would have used on a flight to the coast."
facepalm
We're going to be at the event today, would love to meet any other HN readers. Email me (profile).
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I used to think this way too, but the rise of touchscreen devices has meant that hover-based events restrict your audience.
> And if in 2220, our past 150 years will be grouped together under some other moniker.

Some conjectured routes:

1) Advances in fiber optics and photovoltaics lead to light becoming a superior method of energy transmission. Additionally, computers switch over to optronics when shrinknig die sizes can no longer create speed increases. Electricity is considered as much of a dead and technology as horse drawn wagons and some chart lists 1800-2100 as the Electricity Age.

2) Breakthroughs in superconductors lead to cheap electronics and better brain imaging. Uploading of brains into robot bodies becomes a viable technology and the Higgs-Beckett effect provides more than enough electricity for everyone. Medicine, biology, and farming are now completely obsolete. The past two centuries are now known as the Food Age.

3) The Dirac-Weyland effect allows matter to travel between two equipotential points without using any net energy. Free teleportation obsoletes everything from the bicycle up to the space shuttle, throwing out the telephone along the way. 1400-2200 are known as the Transportation Age
Looks like "tent" has reached hype burnout on hacker news.
A few conclusions:

* Foundation has the best responsive grid support

* Bootstrap is the most expansive UI. For internal tools, that's great. For client sites, we end up fighting to override Bootstrap.

* Skeleton is really light. If you're prototyping with Skeleton, you'll probably need to pair it with jQuery UI or something similar.

FWIW, we're using both Bootstrap and Foundation for current projects.
Has anyone got a decent solution for combining Foundation and RequireJS?
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lol "I'm a hacker because I'm too lazy to program"
I have an old Compaq (n620c, lauched ~2003) and that has it too. Current HP EliteBooks have them.
> I haven't heard "that Thinkpad looks awesome" or "that machine looks well built" in quite some time (X1 carbon aside).

That's because a large sector of the tech industry (and a lot of non-techies as well) has been drinking the Apple Kool-Aid non-stop for the last ~5 years.

That said, I think the X1 Carbon is the flagship model we've been waiting for. It ticks all the right checkboxes, and if you can handle the new keyboard (which has been getting surprisingly good reviews), then I think it's the way to go.
Agree about using data but the main problem is trust autonomy which allows them to develop incompatible systems. For example every damn A&E department in the country has a different software platform or configuration. There should just be one!

Oh that and NHS management, who should just be put up against a wall and shot. If you divide it across all trusts, each directorate member has pissed about 20 million of cash out of the window on stuff that hasn't delivered.
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So if the comet is much smaller than the moon, is it reasonable to assume that it wouldn't reflect enough light to light the earth's surface like a full moon?
I also have an app based on bootstrap. The most common feedback was "it looks like bootstrap"
The Dementia Plague
Yes, I do. I do also remember Halley's comet. Or, rather, I do remember standing on a winter beach around the time of the predicted maximum with a clear view of the southern sky without light pollution and seeing exactly nothing but stars. (Being at 54 degrees north probably didn't help, either).
I don't think it's about time/schedule but rather intensity. I would agree in that the majority of application code really is just little bits of accumulation - piling on another feature or fixing another bug. Those are things you do optimally if you're lazy, knocking off a few each day while spending the rest with non-coding tasks. And with those tasks the slow pace is beneficial in giving yourself room to examine all angles and stop yourself from a trap later on.

You only need to pull the long hours when a big impact is really needed - generally, learning something new or introducing major new concepts into the codebase. With those projects, slicing up the hours is detrimental to understanding of the problem. You still don't want to make an unnecessarily complicated solution, but long hours make necessary complexity easier to tolerate.
Tell HN: $15 Windows 8 offer only applies to computer purchases June '12-Jan '13
This is so true. My car is the last generation of 3 series that has the classic BMW amber gauges (doesn't kill night vision) and no iDrive (terrible series of spins, pushes, and clicks to do something simple like change the radio station to a CD track). I've been in family member's newer BMWs with white gauge lighting and screens all over the place (dash and cluster) and a distinct lack of dedicated buttons that I can use without looking at a screen while driving. I hate it.
Its a matter of perspective and preference. When you are young you don't mind fidgeting with things, leaning their inner working and trying to get something to work. When something is done you can point to it proudly and cry 'I did that'. As you get older you start to lose your patience with technology and sympathize with the user a little. Your perspective could be - 'Why wont this just work !'.

Perhaps it is a matter of patience. I would not know since I'm not 56 yet. OP - A toast to the fire that is still burning within you. May it keep burning for a long time. Have fun writing code.
I'd suggest looking for a local hackerspace. You can find a fairly comprehensive list here: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

There you'll likely find the tools, space, and most importantly a community of people willing to give you advice :)
No person or company is perfect. Apple does some things very right, and some things very wrong, and I don't think there's anything wrong with pointing out instances of both.
People say "Steve wouldn't have done this to maps." but they're wrong. Apple still has it because they're still willing to piss off their users in the short term, but for the benefit of the long term. They're the only major company that sees and understands the innovator's dilemma.
These are two different things. One is working at night, and the other is working non-stop. I like working at night (I wake up at 1ish pm and go to sleep at 4-5) because it's more quiet.

I don't put in 16-hour days, though. There's a clear distinction between the two, and "burning the midnight oil" refers to the former. You can get the advantages of working nights without overworking.
Amazon S3 Supports 301 Redirects
I only skimmed that article, but I don't see anywhere it says 40 hours is optimal. I only see where it says every hour beyond 40 is harmful:

"By the eighth hour of the day, people's best work is usually already behind them (typically turned in between hours 2 and 6)."

It sounds like 30 hours might well be optimal, but has simply never been tested.
I thought it was pretty clear based on the second sentence that the comment was intended as a joke. Do I really need to start adding /jk to the end of my comments?
The bubble that wasn’t: what happened to ‘people discovery’ apps?
First of all Playboy been as controversial as it was invested a lot in interviews just to show that it wasn’t another porn magazine. They managed to take interviews from people who are generally considered inaccessible.

Second although Jobs was known to be whim back in 1985 he wasn’t as successful as it was when he died so my guess is that the interviewer wouldn’t have any problem to push him a bit and make the best out of an interview. Years later people seemed to be frightened of the idea asking him the wrong question.

Lastly, in 1985 Jobs was like thirty years younger than when he died. He would be burning to express his thoughts and his vision of the future. Plus he was still the underdog back then, there were some huge corporations around and Apple compared to them was nothing.
Yah, we've been hearing it quite a bit. It might be mostly because of the colors. We'll probably look at toning it down in the near future.
Thank you very much for that reply.

I have a 590 and I'm pretty happy with it, been eying the 690 but I wasn't able to find any real world non gaming benchmarks.
This was the day that Mike learned the difference between theory and practice: In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; but in practice, there is.

When I read the challenge, and saw that arbitrary Unix programs were allowed, my first idea for a compressor was to scan the OS software for snippets of data that match the source data.

Of course, that was 10 years ago. Today, in the Cloud world, I'd just write a decompressor that connects to my system over the network and retrieves the source data.
I've always found this interesting. Their are so many successful startups you don't hear about that outsource most of their development. Does a power-monster startup really need hundreds of silicon valley engineers? Obviously talent brings you further, but what about for the tedious development tasks and leaving the problem solving to your founders?
BMW to crowdsource the design of their megacity-centric future car
It's gorgeous. I really like Microsoft's new look, and I'm a big fan of text (done right) instead of icons.
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I'm sure Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman would disagree. So would Lempel and Ziv.
In the mid-1990s, I bought a used IBM ThinkPad 701 in Hong Kong. Ten years before netbooks, this wonderful little laptop had a very unique approach to compact size: A "butterfly" keyboard that unfolded when you opened the laptop. There are some photos and historical information about the 701 here:

http://renaissancechambara.jp/2012/04/26/throwback-gadget-ib...

Supposedly, the design was inspired by a black bento box.

Although primitive by today's standards, it was a solid little laptop that served me well for the tasks I was engaged in at the time -- writing, Web surfing, learning HTML, and playing Doom.
15% Of The World Is On Facebook
Eh, it's a grinding game with intentional randomness added on top of a low-skill base for Skinner-box purposes.
It's not pay-to-win like Zynga games, but it is intentionally addictive to play.
Was at the talk and what really looked useful was the HAR stuff (HTTP archive), see httparchive.org
Looks dangerous. I wouldn't use it.
Responsive CSS Performance Myths
Amazing video.